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Re:Sublime Text 4 by ben-schaaf on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @05:18AM (#26645081)
Just upgrading to 3.8 would drop support for a fair number of plugins - python is only somewhat source backwards compatible and not at all binary backwards compatible. As for why 3.3 is difficult to compile for macOS ARM, the 3.8 port is actually a fairly large changeset that would need to be back-ported and tested for 3.3.
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Re:Sublime Text 4 by nly on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @01:32PM (#26650259)
Are the plugins loaded in to the main ST process (using an embedded interpreter)?

A subprocess plugin architecture that used IPC to talk to the text editor would solve the problem, since the plugin host process could probably remain x86 and run under Rosetta.

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